Improvement in end-gates for wagons



PATENT u CFFICE.

JEREMIAH L. STROPES, OF BLOOMFIELD, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN END-GATES FOR WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,014, dated July 11, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JEREMIAH L. STRorns, of Bloomiield, in the county of Greene and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Iniprovement in End-Gates for Vagons, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specilication, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a side view of a common farm-wagon box, showing my end-gate. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are details.

My invention has relation to end-gates for wagons a-nd other vehicles; and consists in the novel construction and arrangement of devices intended to serve as a valuable and useful attachment, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents an ordinary wagon-body; B, the bed-sill on the under side and in rear of the body. This bedsill has projecting ends b', to which the bracerods d are secured by means of nuts c on the under side .of the wagon-body. The braces or stirrups d are riveted in grooves on the inside of the side pieces C of the wagon-body, and passing over the tops of the side pieces or boards, and projecting out ashort distance from the top; thence turning down in a diagonal direction to the sill, and there rmly secured. D represents the end-gate, provided with metallic side pieces E, for the purpose hereinafter mentioned. This gate D rests upon the sill B, which projects beyond the end of the body-iioor, so that the bottorn4 edge of the gate, when up, will be flush and even. The side boards G of the body are cut with oblique ends, being one and a quarter inch longer at' the top. The metallic side pieces E are also cut obliquely at the bottom and inner edge, extending from the lower edge of the gate to the stop-hook h', thus giving a lap at the top for fastening and support. F represents steel springs or bars, attached to the outer surface of the metallic pieces E. These springs are provided with a stop-hook, L, at its lower end, and a spring-catch, K, at its upper end, as shown in the drawing. When the gate is open and down to a level with the iloor of the body the stophook h comes in contact with a shoulder, m, on the stirrup e,- or the gate may be held at an angle, as shown in the drawing in Fig. 2,by means of a dog or pawl, a, attached to the sides of the wagon-body. The gate is represented up and closed in the drawing in Fig. l. H represents a bar, riveted to the side and rear part of the metallie piece E. The lower end of this bar is provided with a hook, O, which works in connection with the staple I, secured in the sill B, and serving as hinges upon which the gate turns.

` I claim as my inventionl l. ,The combination of the braces d, cross-bar B, and gate D, constructed with cam-sides E, and having spring-catches K attached to said cams, substantially as speciiied and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the wagon-body having the recessed transverse bar B with staples and braces d, of the gate D, provided with the catches K', side pieces E, and bent hooks, substantially as specied.

JEREMIAH L. STROPES.

Witnesses:

CHRISTOPHER LEAvITT, ED. P. WILLIAMS. 

